Books Published by the Arizona Historical Society 949 E. 2nd St. | Tucson, AZ 85719 | (520) 628-5774 azhs.org The Girl in the Iron Box How an Arizona Kidnapping Stumped Hoover’s FBI PAUL COOL At 3 o’clock in the afternoon of April 25, 1934, six-year-old June Robles stepped inside a Ford sedan on her way home from school and disappeared from the streets of Tucson, Arizona. With the Lindbergh kidnapping fresh in the minds of Depression-era Americans, the kidnapping sent shock waves across the country and through the sleepy desert community. After nineteen frantic days and nights, June Robles was discovered alive, buried in an iron box beneath the hot desert sand. 2019 Second only to the Lindbergh case, June Robles’s 325 Pages disappearance was the most notorious child ISBN 9780910037631 abduction of the 1930s, setting in motion a massive manhunt in Tucson and around the country. It was $29.95 hardcover the first major case that ambitious FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s agents could not solve. Based on extensive research in newspapers, interviews, and FBI files, Pool recreates in absorbing detail the search for the missing girl, the massive local and national manhunt for her kidnappers, and Hoover’s obsessive involvement in the case. A Volume of Friendship The Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway, 1904—1953 EDITED BY KRISTIE MILLER AND ROBERT H. MCGINNIS In these intimate letters, Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway chronicle a fifty-year friendship dating back to their school days at the beginning of the twentieth century. With care, sympathy, and affection, they share family concerns, discuss national and world affairs, support each other in times of personal tragedy, and chart their respective political careers—Roosevelt as a social reformer and 2009 first lady and Greenway as Arizona’s first 354 Pages congresswoman. Editors Miller and McGinnis’s ISBN 0910037-50-1 astute analysis and insightful commentary enable scholars and general readers to view this $24.95 hardcover remarkable correspondence against the backdrop of state and national politics, the Great Depression, and the changing roles of women in American society. 2 Ambush at Bloody Run The Wham Paymaster Robbery of 1889 LARRY D. BALL A story of politics, religion, race, and banditry in Arizona Territory. In this engrossing and meticulously documented study, Larry Ball draws on a wealth of new research—including interviews and the previously undiscovered trial transcript—to separate fact from legend in describing an event that pitted white against black, Gentile against Mormons, Democrat against Republican, lawman against outlaw, and neighbor against neighbor in a 2000 region chafing under federal control. 260 Pages ISBN 0-9100037-40-X $24.95 hardcover Campaigns in the West (1856-1861) COLONEL JOHN VAN DEUSEN DU BOIS, FOREWORD BY DURWOOD BALL Originally published in 1949 by the Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society and the Grabhorn Press. In his introduction to this elegant reprint, University of New Mexico professor Durwood Ball describes how industrialist and benefactor W. J. “Jack” Holliday collaborated with the Arizona Historical Society to publish this vivid account of service with the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen in 2003 New Mexico and present-day Arizona in the 168 Pages troubled 1850s. Professor Ball also assesses the book’s importance to the military history of the ISBN 0-910037-45-0 Southwest. The new edition includes thirteen $19.99 hardcover previously unpublished Heger drawings from the Arizona Historical Society collections. 3 Cavalry Yellow & Infantry Blue Army Officers in Arizona between 1851 and 1886 CONSTANCE WYNN ALTSHULER Cavalry Yellow & Infantry Blue presents concise, insightful biographies of army officers serving in Arizona between 1851, when the first American post was established, and 1886, when Geronimo’s surrender officially ended the Indian Wars. Most of the officers “had careers ranging far beyond the borders of the Territory.” Altshuler carefully sets out the personal record of success and failure— documenting promotions and court-martials, victories and defeats, births and tragic deaths. 2012 An indispensable text for researchers, Cavalry 120 Pages Yellow & Infantry Blue will challenge the reader’s ISBN 0-910037 understanding of well-known army figures while inspiring a closer look at the courageous roles of $24.95 hardcover lesser-known men. Chronicles of War Apache & Yavapai Resistance in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, 1821-1937 BERNDT KÜHN Based on three decades of extensive field work and exhaustive research in manuscript and published sources, Berndt Kühn chronicles more than a century of conflict between Native Americans, Anglos, and Mexicans in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The nearly 4,000 entries in this meticulous compendium provide essential information on combatants, casualties, and locations of battles, 2014 skirmishes, and raids, along with the relevant sources for further research. Maps and tables 480 Pages chart the ebb and flow of warfare and tally the ISBN 978-0-910037-60-0 cost in lives and property. An excellent resource $44.95 hardcover for scholars and beginning researchers. 4 It Was the Grandest Sight I Ever Saw Experiences of a Rough Rider as Recorded in the Letters of Lieutenant John Campbell Greenway EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES HERNER 2001 “It was the grandest sight I ever saw.” With 64 Pages these words written to his mother, twenty-six- year-old 2nd Lt. John C. Greenway of Company ISBN 0-910037-44-2 G, First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, describes the $9.95 paperback famous charge of Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders up the San Juan Heights in Cuba on July 1, 1898. In this engrossing collection of seventeen telegrams and letters, published here for the first time, Lieutenant Greenway provides an intimate view of the organization, training, battles, and personnel of the Rough Riders through the eyes of a young Yale graduate who quickly became a favorite of Roosevelt. Charles Herner’s detailed annotations and informed commentary illuminate Greenway’s letters against the backdrop of the Spanish-American War. Mickey Free Apache Captive, Interpreter, and Indian Scout ALLAN RADBOURNE On January 27, 1861, an Apache raiding party attacked John Ward’s ranch in the Sonoita Valley of southeastern Arizona and carried off Ward’s thirteen-year-old stepson, Felix Telles. Thus began a remarkable odyssey. A young Mexican-American boy was transformed into an Apache warrior and eventually served as Indian Scout for the U.S. Army. In this thoughtful and engaging biography, Allan Radbourne employs three decades of research in archival records, printed sources, and Apache oral 2005 tradition to tell the story of Mickey Free and the 302 Pages Indian Scouts who played hitherto unappreciated roles in the Apache wars of the 1870s and 1880s ISBN 0910037469 and the application of reservation policy. $29.95 hardcover 5 Provincias Internas Continuing Frontiers EDITED BY PETE DIMAS “Provincias Internas: Continuing Frontiers” was a one-day symposium held at Phoenix College in which a group of distinguished panelists explored the concept of frontiers in the region that was previously the northern frontier of colonial New Spain. The Provincias Internas are that region that now comprises the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico. The symposium explored the concept of frontiers within this region over several centuries. Each panelist presented a brief paper, followed by 2007 discussion among the panel members and 126 Pages questions from the audience. Each paper is ISBN 978-0-910037-48-8 reprinted in this book with the highlights of the subsequent discussion recorded in question- $14.95 paperback and-answer form at the end of each paper. Sometimes The Blues The Letters and Diaries of Frank Hammon, A Lonely Frontiersman in Globe and Phoenix, 1882-1889 SUSAN CLARDY, FOREWORD BY DON DEDERA Frank Hammon was among the flood of educated young men who came west in the late-1800s seeking adventure and fortune, but found only hardship, tragedy, and backbreaking work. Unlike many of his fellows, Hammon wrote down his thoughts and daily routines in letters and a diary. In her engaging book, Hammon’s great granddaughter fills in his life in the bustling mining town of Globe and the Phoenix farming community. She paints a 2007 vivid picture of Hammon’s world. His diaries and letters, supplemented by Susan Clardy’s meticulous 328 Pages research, uncover the lives of ordinary men and ISBN 0-910037-47-7 women struggling to survive in territorial Arizona. $29.95 hardcover 6 Zeckendorfs and Steinfelds Merchant Princes of the American Southwest BETTINA O’NEIL LYONS From their arrival in Santa Fe in 1853 with the earliest American occupation to the close of Steinfeld’s department store in downtown Tucson in the 1890s, the history of the Zeckendorf and Steinfeld families is intertwined with the economic development of the Southwest. In this detailed portrayal, Bettina O’Neil Lyons delves into family documents, archival records, and published sources to 2008 chronicle 130 years of mercantile enterprise 416 Pages through the eyes of a remarkable group of men and women who lay the business foundations ISBN 978-0-910037-49-5 and set the social tone of Arizona and New $19.95 hardcover Mexico for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Forty photographs, many published here for the first time, chronicle the lives and times of the Zeckendorfs and the Steinfelds. 7 Please mail this form to: AHS Publications, 949 E. 2nd St., Tucson, AZ 85719-4898 Orders from individuals must be accompanied by check, money order, or credit card information. Arizona Historical Society members receive a 10% discount on each book. Please call (520) 617-1163 or email [email protected] for wholesale inquires, international postage rates and other ordering questions.